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NaPoWriMo 30: Here, Roots Are Not Joined
You fear, you fear her return. IT IS THE END OF NAPOWRIMO. And it really has been marvellous. I’ve just one poem (apart from that below)...
Apr 30, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 29: Excerpts from a Report on the New Poem Aquarium
An empty aquarium – shall we fill it with poems? Shall we? So yes, it being the end of NaPoWriMo, I’m going quite deranged and using...
Apr 29, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 28: Painting Friends’ Palettes
A lovely iridescent bubble Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write about a colour. So – as it’s nearing the end of the month and I (as...
Apr 29, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 27: Tami Is Using Pinterest
All that glitters is not what’s good for the goose. Feeling experimental today! I have been out running a workshop earlier, so just used...
Apr 27, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 26: Stories and/or Plans and/or Ideas
This became the nickname for my Mum, so my step-dad made her an actual Mothership logo – AWESOIME. Here’s my Day 26 offering, from Jo...
Apr 26, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 25: Picnic Ballad
Here is your hamper… …have a lovely time Sometimes, you’ve just got to let it all out. But, so a long-standing motto of mine goes: Make...
Apr 25, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 23: A Triolet for Entropy
The Universe loves things to get more disordered. (So most of us fit right in – We Are Stardust!) I’m running on a slightly altered...
Apr 23, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 22: Generic Blessings
Temple Newsam House, with its blessing around the roof-line Catching up with some NaPoWriMo prompts: determined to have at least 30 by...
Apr 22, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 21: White Violin or, Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler
Lord Raby’s Massive Silver Wine Cooler – as so described on the signs in Temple Newsam House! Filling in an earlier gap from NaPoWriMo: I...
Apr 21, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 20: Rising Suns
Piss-en-lit! Taraxacum! Yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to use a prescribed list of words and include 5 or more in a poem. Jo Bell’s...
Apr 21, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 19: Dating the Deep
COLOSSUS SEEKS KRAKEN Yesterday’s prompt was to write a poem in the form of a personal ad (from NaPoWriMo) or to write about a particular...
Apr 20, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 18: Me or Him, Even
Even? A really quick one today, from both Jo Bell’s prompt (write about something you feel guilty for) and the NaPoWriMo prompt, to start...
Apr 18, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 17: Google Search Suggestions on the Day of Thatcher’s Funeral
Indeed she is not. At least we all have death in common though, eh? Off-prompt today, but will be writing a Blessing (after Jo Bell’s...
Apr 17, 20132 min read
NaPoWriMo 16: Apple ’til Blackened Lager
Look! Blackened Lager is an actual thing! This was really good fun: the prompt today was to find a poem in a language other than English...
Apr 16, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 16: Emancipation on Briggate
Fortunately, the wheelie bin I saw on the move this morning off Briggate was not air-borne (just ground-borne – can something be...
Apr 16, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 14: I AM ANTI-BOTNET
An infographic of how a Botnet works…I’d like to see an infographic of my ANTI-BOTNET. Anyone? Tasked with creating a ‘persona poem’...
Apr 15, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 12: Want/Need
A magick key (for an inadvertently key-shaped poem) A quick one this: I don’t often get slushy and when I do, it tends to be short! And...
Apr 15, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 11: Double-Duvet Mecca
A pair of washers at a washeteria Day 11’s prompt was to write a Tanka (five-line stanzas with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) – so I’ve used the...
Apr 13, 20131 min read


NaPoWriMo 10: Un-love Poem for Call-Centre Conversations
The battery-farming of conversation, in the form of a call centre. Day 10’s prompt was to write a poem of un-love; not a malediction, so...
Apr 12, 20132 min read


NaPoWriMo 9: “I’m the plot, babe, and don’t you forget it”
Smoky big-haired replicant femme-fatale from the future! Still catching up, so here’s my Noir poem for day 9. I actually found an IMDB...
Apr 12, 20131 min read
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